Understanding politics across borders and divides
Published: August 29, 2026 On August 24, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella announced a nationwide deportation crackdown targeting undocumented migrants, starting with a pilot program in Barranquilla, a coastal city home to an estimated 182,000 Venezuelans. “I will not accept any illegal immigrants, wherever they come from,” he said in a video posted to … Read more
Last Updated: July 2026 Overview Migration in the Americas is organized around one displacement event and a set of national responses to it. Roughly 7.9 million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015, and about 6.9 million of them live elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean, not in North America. That distribution is the … Read more
Last Updated: July 2026 Overview The Americas legalized assisted dying through a route Europe mostly did not use: constitutional litigation. Colombia’s Constitutional Court decriminalized euthanasia in 1997, before any European parliament acted, and Ecuador’s court followed in 2024. Canada’s framework also began with a Supreme Court ruling, in Carter in 2015, rather than with legislation. … Read more
Published: July 19, 2026 Overview Colombia has just voted to reverse course. In one of the closest and most polarized elections in its recent history, right-wing political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella narrowly defeated the governing left’s candidate in a June 2026 runoff, ending the single term of Gustavo Petro, the country’s first left-wing president. … Read more